Hosea 4:5

You priests will stumble during the day; 1 the prophets will also stumble with you by night, 1 and I will destroy your mother. 1

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In The King James Version

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

In Context

4But do not allow anyone to bring a lawsuit; 1 do not let anyone accuse anyone else. 1 For it is you, the priests, whom I am accusing. 1

6My people are being destroyed because of the lack of knowledge. 1 Because you priests have rejected knowledge, 1 I will also reject you as priests to me. 1 Because you have forgotten my law, although I am your God, 1 I also will forget your children. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:13Yet the people will not turn to him who struck them, nor will they seek Yahweh of hosts. 1

Jeremiah 6:4“Dedicate yourselves to the gods for the battle. Arise, let us attack at noon. 1 It is too bad that the daylight is fading away, that the evening shadows are falling. 1

Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they practiced abominations? They were not ashamed; they did not know how to blush! 1 So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says Yahweh. 1

Jeremiah 14:15Therefore Yahweh says this, “About the prophets prophesying in my name but whom I did not send out—those who say there will be no sword or famine in this land: These prophets will perish by sword and famine.

Jeremiah 23:9Regarding the prophets, my heart is broken in me, and all of my bones tremble. I have become like a drunk man, 1 like a man whom wine has overpowered, because of Yahweh and his holy words. 1

Ezekiel 13:9My hand will be against the prophets who have lying visions and who make false predictions. They will not be in the assembly of my people, or enrolled in the record of the house of Israel; they must not go to the land of Israel. For you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh!

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:2-6

The Sinfulness of Israel. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear the word of the Lord , ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the… Read the whole commentary →

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